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It had been snowing so all sorts. I do like to see it as the day the Phoenix visited.

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Wonder what was cracking off that day that made it appear?

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Well… I took this photo March 13 years ago from my old workplace in central Birmingham. (What was the Caron again, I recall the transforming ship)

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The skies are getting better by the day

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It’s finding people here who used to be over there!

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I’m okay with birdie place for that in the main. Breeze in and out of here.

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Yes and the crazy “intolerance” tag.

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I do that. And also amused at who’s blocked me without ever having interacted. It’s rather holier than though here.

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Thanks. Just did a read around do you opt in or out, or around.

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Mary C @maryecostello.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It’s not the worst thing in the world, but it’s inconvenient to need to log in here and the other former bluebird place to get a good range of insights and views. Not sure which has the most fair algorithm in allowing people to see what’s been said. Maybe better here.

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Spring is happening even though the skies are mainly grey

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Tit of the Day: Himalayan Black-lored Tit 📷 Nitin Chandra

Yellow bellied, yellow faced with black eye stripe, black head and crest, black chin, olive backed, black and white wings and tail, perched on rim of pot, photo.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

'Blue Light' by contemporary, Brighton-based, UK painter Emma Brownjohn #WomensArt

Painting of a townscape at dusk or dawn with a large square with many people walking and with a row of buildings in the background with lights in the windows, the scene is all bathed in blue light

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Mary C @maryecostello.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

This was the portrait that made me feel positive at The National Portrait Gallery earlier this week. My dad was a member of TGWU and always said how grateful he was to his branch for support in hard and difficult times.

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Mary C @maryecostello.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Pine marten (Leitrim) Fox (Birmingham) Peregrine falcon (Symonds Yat Rock) Badger (bucks) Snowy Owl (Witney on Wye)

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Glenys Norquay @glenisilla.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Today's kestrel - back in the same spot and showing us those beautifully fluffy legs 😍 Liberton #Edinburgh #birds

A close-up of a kestrel, with very fluffy legs visible below otherwise smooth feathers

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Mary C @maryecostello.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Pretty in Erdington’s Rookery Park

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

OUT NOW, my month-by-month guide to 1980s pop, from ABC to XTC, and from Madonna to Neneh. #IntoTheGroove, published by @eandtbooks.bsky.social.

Cover of
INTO THE GROOVE: THE 1980s:
THE ULTIMATE DECADE IN MUSIC HISTORY
by Justin Lewis (me)

'An epic compendium of stories and trivia from the 80s music scene'

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

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Rue Jo Cox, Députée Britannique, a street sign in Burgundy reads, Assassinée pour ses convictions.

No British road is named after her, I found on returning home, for fear it could have proved controversial.

I remembered in Shakespeare rue even for ruth, called 'herb of grace' because it was used in exorcisms,

by the angel to clean Adam's eyes, and Gulliver back home for his nose against the smell of his countrymen.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The actual group moving most strongly to Reform are male Gen X-ers. We need more articles on how to deal with them.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

In ep 15 of #FirstLastAnything, from Sept 2022, the violinist, arranger and musical director Helen O’Hara (@oharaviolin.bsky.social) talked about her role in the remarkable saga of Dexys, her work with Tanita Tikaram and her excellent memoir What She’s Like. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/20/f...

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FLA 15: Helen O’Hara (18/09/2022)

(c) Natacha Horn In the spring of 1982, the violinist Helen O’Hara had two job offers. One was to join the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra; the other was to join Kevin Rowland’s Dexys Midnight Runners as…

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Another massive part of what local govt is doing, in the same space, is competing with the home office *for the same housing*

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A very different place. A verve now that’s been knocked out of it in the ‘80s and early ‘90s. And also still the same in other ways.

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Hello Blue sky with nice cloudy sky in Manchester. Piccadilly gardens with a nice buzz. It’s a much maligned place, but better than it was in the ‘90s.

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Having a little weep realising it’s more prevalent a way than I’d like to freely recognise

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